Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Unlike other contributors to the table, Mendeleev predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.

There is a legend about how he has discovered this table. According to this legend he was trying to figure out the table for many weeks but couldn’t get all the elements in one table. So he was very tired and exhausted so got a little nap, and during this nap he have got the dream. In this dream he has clearly seen the periodic table of elements in three dimensions. Everything was structured and brilliantly looking. Not only the known and already discovered elements, which have already got their names, were on this table, but the previously unknown elements which didn’t have the names and were not discovered for that time, they were discovered only years later. All he had to do is to wake up and write everything down. So he woke up and the table was ready.
Here is a photosession of the house where he had got this prophetic vision. After the Communist’s takeover in Russia all the private property was confiscated by the state, but state has no funds to support this property. So even these days many of houses of well known pre-Communist Era people stay abandoned and almost destroyed.

And by the way, in Russia people believe that Mendeleev was inventor of vodka.

Am I the only one noticing that there are actually 3 different houses depicted here? The building on the fifth picture is obviously different from the first house… And both of them are clearly different from the house at the lake…

Great pictures nevertheless. I wonder what it would cost to buy such a house.

This was not his childhood home. He grew up in Siberia. His family was not wealthy, and his father died when he was a child. His mother raised the children who were still at home through her glass factory and later died of tuberculosis.

It’s a shame that his house has fallen into such a state of disrepair. His work was an amazing contribution to the scientific advancements we have achieved today. In discovering the ways to organize the periodic table, he brought on new ideas, and brought forth discoveries that wouldn’t be found for many years otherwise. Much of our chemistries foundation is based on the periodic table, the logic behind it, the history, and organization of it. In saving and restoring Mendeleev’s home, we are attempting to save his history, a history that belongs to the Russian’s culture and historical society.

Mendeleev was believing that the best vodka should contain 2 moles of water per one mole of ethanol. In volume percents it is about 38.5%. But for the government this value was inconvenient, in terms of taxation. Also, taxes were the higher the higher was per cent of alcohol in beverage. Hence, the percent was rounded to 40%

When I looked at those pictures I felt so much pain of loss. Mendeleev’s discovery was ranked in a top ten list of greatest discoveries of all times. It is a shame that the Russian Government, historic, and scientific societies do not restore and preserve this historic building, & create a museum for generations to come and learn. Shame, shame, shame. It is loss for science, Russian dignity. Mu husband and I will contact Chemical Heritage society in Philadelphia, PA about this.

Are you crazy? I live in Russia and I never heard that Mendeleev discovered vodka, second: Whose that house? Mendeleev is a very important person in our history, all that pictures are fake, the guvern knows what to do with the best minds of all times and their houses, be sure a such a house in a big city will in the end be selled but never stay like here.
Please, if you want to post something that surely will remember all the unexisting Soviet union, post pictures of Happy three friends, I will laugh a little bit because now I’m just saying …k ..ou .
Thank you

What a beautiful place in natural decline. If only its stories could be told; imagine children running and laughing through the rooms.

Here in the USA, this lovely place would be demolished for the money in development. It would be knocked down and pushed into the pond to build a McDonalds parking lot, an automated warehouse, or a by-pass highway around a town.

Russian students in architecture, engineering and art should be brought to the house to study and somehow be influenced by its design and beauty.

Russia has given us so many scientists and engineers. I remember my Landua’s physics course books from college days or I.A. Maron’s calculus book fondly. The only recent news I have heard was about this math guy who rejected fields medal. I hope more good science comes out of russia.